jordanlund ,
@jordanlund@lemmy.world avatar

LOL:

"How risky was the AstraZeneca vaccine?

Compared to other scenarios

Death from giving birth - 1 in 12,500

Chance of under-50s getting blood clot with low platelets from AstraZeneca vaccine - 1 in 50,000

Death from receiving general anaesthetic - 1 in 100,000"

Death from giving birth number seems awfully low, must be UK numbers. ;)

Yup. US death rate is 32.9 per 100,000 so... 1 in 3,039.51

Source: https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2024/03/13/1238269753/maternal-mortality-overestimate-deaths-births-health-disparities

sanguinepar ,
@sanguinepar@lemmy.world avatar

Jesus Christ, 1 in 3000? That's terrifying.

jordanlund ,
@jordanlund@lemmy.world avatar

Oh, it gets WORSE:

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hestat/maternal-mortality/2021/maternal-mortality-rates-2021.htm

"In 2021, the maternal mortality rate for non-Hispanic Black (subsequently, Black) women was 69.9 deaths per 100,000 live births, 2.6 times the rate for non-Hispanic White (subsequently, White) women (26.6) (Figure 1 and Table). Rates for Black women were significantly higher than rates for White and Hispanic women."

1 in 1,430.62 for black women. This is why abortion rights are so important in the US.

sanguinepar ,
@sanguinepar@lemmy.world avatar

Fucking hell. That's just awful.

Agreed on abortion rights, they need to get their finger out and pass nationwide law that the states can't overrule.

livus ,

Death from giving birth number seems awfully low

Seemed slightly on the high side to me, but within the bounds of normal. This is like a medical version of the overton window, I guess.

Here in NZ it's around 7 per 100,000. I get the impression the US is an outlier on this particular stat.

Hobbes_Dent ,

Holy shit they want $35USD per month for The Telegraph.

TH1NKTHRICE ,

https://archive.ph/2024.05.07-220842/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/05/07/astrazeneca-withdrawing-covid-vaccine/

InternetCitizen2 ,

That's a robbery!

Skullgrid ,
@Skullgrid@lemmy.world avatar

Numbers add up VS being unvaccinated and getting covid, somethingsomething fuck antivaxxers

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